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New partner
IUCN NL supports the Guaraní worldview of ‘Yaiko Kavi Pave’, meaning ‘To live well’
We are very pleased to welcome IUCN NL as a new partner within the DOB Ecology network. In the coming three years DOB Ecology will support IUCN NL and their local partner Nativa Bolivia in their work for the long-term survival of the Ñembi Guasu Indigenous Reserve. It is the first protected area created by an autonomous indigenous government in Bolivia. The reserve covers 1.2 million hectares of largely intact Chaco dry forest and is home to the Guaraní population as well as the isolated Ayoreo indigenous community.
IUCN NL will support the indigenous government with developing knowledge and management skills and secure funding for the most urgent theme facing Ñembi Guasu: to bring an end to current deforestation caused by cattle ranching, agriculture and massive wildfires.
Video's: Miranda Volpe @mirandavolpebio
Safeguarding the genes of the last jaguars of Chaco, Argentina
Seven months ago Mbarete, one of the first two jaguars born at the Yaguareté Reintroduction Center in the Iberá National Park (Corrientes), arrived at El Impenetrable National Park (Chaco). The idea seemed daring: transfer a female that lived in semi-freedom conditions in Iberá to El Impenetrable to cross her with Qaramta, the only wild male registered in that national park. However, mating occurred without incident in large pens, and three months later two healthy pups were born. But the final part of the operation still remained: to capture Mbarete and her puppies to transfer them back to Iberá.
After successfully capturing and making an epic trip by plane and truck, Mbarete and her two puppies arrived at Iberá in perfect condition. Today they are in a huge corral waiting to be released soon.
The cubs will contribute genetic variability to the incipient population of Iberá and will safeguard the genes of one of the last jaguars of the Argentine Chaco.
These active management actions have been difficult to accept in the past —and are still so today in some sectors of the conservation field— but they are essential to save critically endangered species, such as the jaguar.
To achieve this, collaboration between different jurisdictions is also key, as occurred in this feat between the provinces of Chaco and Corrientes and the Iberá and El Impenetrable National Parks.